Azure Powershell How long VM has been Stopped (deallocated)

Question

Hello:

I am looking for an advice for the best way to find out how long VM has been Stopped (deallocated) via Powershell.

Is it possible?

As of now the only idea I have is to use metrics and see when CPU is less (or more) than "0", but this way does not seem as really good approach to me.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

@olegarr You can configure custom alerts or use alerts from metrics to trigger whenever a machine is deallocated.

However, if you want to do this through PS, you can run the following command to list all the VM's and the timestamp of the action that triggered the deallocation.

Get-AzLog -Status Accepted -DetailedOutput | ?{$_.Authorization.Action -eq "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/deallocate/action"} | fl ResourceId,EventTimestamp

This command searches for the status "succeeded" in all the deallocate action which are occurring under the resource provider "Microsoft.Compute" and lists the timestamp and resource ID you need.

You can then the use that to calculate the timeframe.

Answer 2

To Check when was the Azure VM stopped last time, run below command:

az disk show --name <OS_disk_name> --resource-group <RG_Name> --subscription <Subscription_Name>

where OS_disk_name is disk attached to VM

and then look for "LastOwnershipUpdateTime" property.